Development Practices It’s Dangerous To Go Alone! Pairing on Spike Work We often ask for a pair when we're stuck, but pairing for spike work can be critical to laying a safe path forward.
Development Practices Technical Spikes: A Recipe So you’ve been assigned a technical spike — where do you start? The following is my general process for tackling technical spikes.
Development Practices The Benefits of a Spiking Phase in Agile Development A spiking phase lets everybody working on the project gain a greater understanding of the system as a whole.
Development Practices 3 Steps to Creating Spikes with Lasting Value Spikes are great for exploring and de-risking problems. I'll outline three steps I take to make sure that spikes have lasting value for a software project.
